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Entering Grades 3 - 10 in September
This optional program is designed to give boys and girls, 8 years old (by Dec. 31st of current year while at camp) and older, the basic skills
required to safely ride, manage, and care for horses. Instruction and riding are combined in 3-hour classes, 5 days each week.
Campers participate in other camp activities while not in horseback riding and must be enrolled in Camp Farley's Overnight or Day Camp program.
Camp will provide protective headgear, but campers signed up for riding must wear long pants and hard soled shoes. For safety considerations,
campers should avoid wearing open-toed footgear and sneakers. For liability purposes, parents will be asked to provide camp a signed
liability waiver. This form can be printed from our website or will be mailed after registering.
There are two riding sessions each day, with 10 riders in each session. Older campers are generally placed in the morning group,
with younger campers having horseback riding each afternoon. There is a minimum of two riding instructors present at all times.
During each session, half the group is typically engaged in riding and/or direct hands-on experiences with the horses, while the
other half is involved in non-riding, hands-on horse related activities.
Non-riding activities may include grooming and grooming tools, stall cleaning and maintenance, parts of the horse, how horses think
and sense, how to wrap a horse and the different types of wraps, different types of riding, and many other related horse topics.
English riding is not excluded, but a stronger influence is placed on Western dressage technique as a means of establishing the fundamentals
of balance and control. Riding levels of each participant is evaluated during the beginning of each week and the dynamics of the program
approach for each weekly group is geared accordingly.
Click here to register your child for a fun packed summer at Camp Farley.
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